In February, sales of e-books for kids and young adults rose by triple digits, and experts say it’s not because kids suddenly made use of the tablets they got for Christmas. Instead, adults tearing through the Hunger Games trilogy ratcheted up profits while sales of adult e-books stagnated. Pottermore has further revolutionized children’s e-books by [...]
Jun 22, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: children's e-books, children’s e-books, children’s literature, e-books, exotic e-books, Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, kid lit, Maurice Sendak, Pottermore, publishing trends, Stephen Colbert, The Hunger Games, YA e-books, YA literature | Leave A Comment »
All that end-of-the-year optimism about e-book sales got a hip check when a new study found that 74 percent of bookworms have yet to purchase an e-book, even though the number of book buyers who also purchased an e-book rose 17 percent in 2011. E-book popularity varies greatly by genre, accounting today for 26 percent [...]
Mar 01, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Technology, Trends | Tags: Android, Apple, author, book, digital, digital books, e-books, enhanced books, iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Mac computer, power buyers, publishing, Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablet, technology trends, writer | Leave A Comment »
With the grand opening of Le Huffington Post creating waves around the Web (Arianna Huffington made the provocative choice of Anne Sinclair, journo wife of embattled ex–IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to oversee it), it seems an opportune time to look at other businesses making an entrée into Français. In the fall, not one but two [...]
Feb 08, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Technology, Trends | Tags: Arianna Huffington, digital bookstores, e-books, Eventbrite, France, French cinema, French Kindle, global expansion, global markets, global trends, Kindle, Kobo, Le Huffington Post, QuickLogic, Social Media, Technicolor, the Huffington Post | Leave A Comment »
E-Books Get Juvenile Teens today aren’t reading books so much as they’re listening to them, watching them and interacting with them Not unlike their parents, kids have become multitasking electronic-media sponges. The typical teen stuffs his face with nearly eight hours of online content a day; taking into account that he’s often engaging several mediums [...]
Oct 13, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: Ainsley’s Diary, digital books, e-books, Facebook, Generation Y, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, millennials, Open Road integrated media, Pottermore, publishing, Teens, triggered events, Wattpad, webisode | Leave A Comment »
